No habrá paz para los malvados. ”No rest for the wicked”. That’s the biblically inspired title of a recently released Spanish thriller about crime and revenge. But in the real Spain, the wicked may be having some rest after all. While prominent corruption trials come to nothing, star judge Baltasar Garzón, seen all over the world as an embodiment of the principle of universal justice, sits in the dock, facing not one but three separate indictments that are expected to put an abrupt end to his hyperactive judicial career.

Garzón stands accused of opening an investigation into the killings of the Franco dictatorship (1936-1975). You may be surprised to learn that looking into these 114,000 murders is a punishable crime in Spain, but that is how it is. The specific charge against Garzón is “perverting the course of justice”.

More here (HT: Flavia Dzodan).